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 Thy Aspect's Silent Rhetorick shall gain What Earth-born Eloquence may Ask in vain.

Thus Themis spoke. Her Sister's ravish'd Ears Blest the sweet Musick that allay'd her Fears; Then wing'd with Joy, she to Aristus flies, And Obvious to his Intellectual Eyes The Goddess thus bespoke her faithful Friend; In vain thy Courage and thy Zeal contend To Justify my Cause, and Rights Defend; If Impious Discord at thy Doors presume Thus to insult me and my Throne assume. Within those Walls, once Holy and Renoun'd, (Strangers to Every inharmonious Sound) Poison'd by Discord's stimulating Rage, Two mighty Pow'rs in adverse Arms Engage. With